The Aida Parker Newsletter

South African and international politics and society.

Every day brings more evidence of the fateful stench of
decay, Africa-style, in our country, decay which starts with ignorance,
feeds on the brutality of the fast multiplying hordes, where dog
eats dog, rejects all moral restraints and ends in self-aggrandizement,
in lust for wealth and power, in intolerance and corruption, crime
and chaos.
South Africa, after all is said and done, is Africa.

All centenaries are remarkable. Even those which occur in the
dark times of danger and despair. This is APN's 200th edition,
a not inconsiderable achievement considering the sandbanks and
floating debris which have endangered the progress of our little
boat in the swollen river of political rhetoric, deception, propaganda,
threat, obfuscation and, finally, incompetence and ignorance,
as it has been swept and tumbled in a violent passage to the sea
of trouble in which South Africa now finds itself.

SOMEDAY, perhaps ten years from now,
some historian will sit down and, fascinated, appalled, begin writing
the history of SA's political press. For, squirm as they now may,
every single section of SA's mainline press, English and Afrikaans
alike, must be held responsible for the present SA tragedy: what
General Viljoen describes as "this crisis of chaos."

After 12 months of an avalanche of TV histrionics,
backed by hysterical media headlines, this R130 million extravaganza
has degenerated into little more than a series of one-sided show
trials aimed, it would appear, at the moral annihilation of the
Afrikaners. Academics prefer the term, "cultural genocide."

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